x86 processor
dual boot Palmos/Windows Mobile/WinXP/Linux
20Gb of free space
WiFi
bluetooth that can do both headset and GPS at the same time
A2DP
Mpeg4 digital camera with video 3.2Mp
MP3 sound recorder
at that point I woke up

x86 processor
dual boot Palmos/Windows Mobile/WinXP/Linux
20Gb of free space
WiFi
bluetooth that can do both headset and GPS at the same time
A2DP
Mpeg4 digital camera with video 3.2Mp
MP3 sound recorder
at that point I woke up

There 's still a place in the market for the treos' smallish, square screens, but I would like to see palm move on to bigger viewing displays on some of their newer phones. I'm ready to make the move.

I think it would be a dramatic improvement in the browser, email and general media experience.

If palm doesn't do it, apple may do this as a successor to the first iphone.

The swivel or slide solutions would work. The main thing I'd be looking for would be a comfortable keyboard with raised keys enabling a responsive, tactile feel when typing. Flat keys are a no go for me. uncomfortable as hell.

The gyro sensor, which is present on the iphone, is another feature on my list. The phone will switch to landscape mode when the screen flips or slides to reveal the kb.

There 's still a place in the market for the treos' smallish, square screens, but I would like to see palm move on to bigger viewing displays on some of their newer phones. I'm ready to make the move.

I think it would be a dramatic improvement in the browser, email and general media experience.

If palm doesn't do it, apple may do this as a successor to the first iphone.

The swivel or slide solutions would work. The main thing I'd be looking for would be a comfortable keyboard with raised keys enabling a responsive, tactile feel when typing. Flat keys are a no go for me. uncomfortable as hell.

The gyro sensor, which is present on the iphone, is another feature on my list. The phone will switch to landscape mode when the screen flips or slides to reveal the kb.

PDAphones with the large screens have been around for quite some time. The treo's design is far more unique, as far as PocketPCphones go. There are a lot of devices with the large QVGA screen, with and without keyboards. I personally find that having a large screen and sacrificing the static keyboard makes the device a lot less usable.

But seriously, I think palm should make more room for gps on the phone than the camera at this point.

It depends on your needs, but I think gps is a hell of a lot more useful than the camera resolution.

there`s all this talk about the thickness of palm`s treos. My opinion on this, Id rather have the regular size phone packed with wifi, gps, ev-do and the latest bluetooth, than a thin phone minus the antenna that gets you 2 hours of use.

The treo`s features will take palm further than treo`s thinness. It will take them YEARS to realize this though.

Simultaneous voice & data (I want to be able to search google maps while talking on my headset)

New browser (I try to use Blazer as infrequently as possible, it can hardly be called browsing at all. More like pecking. The new browser should support java and flash and at least be able to view youtube content without any helpers)

Aside from all the standards (new BT stack, GPS, wifi, etc) I would also like to see a full-featured browser and a larger, wide screen. I want a slider like my old Tungsten T, where it is the std 750 size normally and then you can slide it open to reveal the widescreen. They can call it the Palm Switchblade. To hell with the sliding keyboard - I would use the keyboard way more often than the wider screen so let the extra screen slide away.

I also want some classier phone features on the hardware side. For $600, I want the absolute best microphone, speakers, and radio that can be slapped into a cellphone. I want to be able to talk on speaker phone from across the room. I don't really care to see it get too much thinner at the cost of features/battery - but would rather have the construction material be of such a quality that it didn't need a case to protect it from normal pocket living. That would shave mine down by half right there (vaya case).

Even if Palm OS can't handle multitasking, the least they can do is have their programs keep their suspended states. I don't mind if I can't run 2 apps at the same time, but when I switch from one to the other I wanna go right back where I left it and I want a nice fast way to switch between two apps (ie dictionary and word doc or blazer and anything). We shouldn't have to rely on Alex Pruss to do it for them (accessorizer).

In short, I'm not exactly looking for anything too revolutionary - just nail the basics down to the quality level deserving of the price tags.

I really hope that the iPhone will at least teach (remind) Palm and the rest of the Smartphone world that not everyone wants a QWERTY keyboard. Palm should know better, since it started out perfect fine with Graffiti and no QWERTY. And the older successful Smartphones -- when PalmOS reigned supreme in both the PDA world and the Smartphone world (i.e. the Kyocera 7135 and the Samsung i500) were great and had no QWERTY.

Some of us would rather use what limited surface real estate there is on a phone for SCREEN AREA, and for a dedicated dialing pad. The HTC S720 goes back to this, but still gives you a QWERTY via a slideout. Me -- I don't want the QWERTY at all because I want the phone THIN (no sliding keyboard), and I want the phone surface to be either SCREEN or dialing pad (for easy one-handed dialing), and I would prefer a flip phone. Hence the ideal design in my view is still the Samsung i500. TOUCH SCREEN on one half of the flip, and dialing pad on the other.

Another way to look at it: I want a thin clamshell (Razr, A900m, etc) that has a hi-res (QVGA) touchscreen and runs PalmOS. The closest current offering is the Cingular 3125, which is a thin, clamshell WM5 Smartphone, no touch screen...

650 Form factor but with muuuch larger screen (eg 3.5" 480x480)
-1.3/2.0 mp cam (with real flash). With optics allowing me to take Macro photos. Focus regulated manually like in SPV m3100 or automatically like in F-S T830. Or throw out camera.
-built in call recorder
-more RAM for some tasks (32 or 64MB) or ability to add it by myself
-sdhc card slot. Second card slot or ability to solder second microsd card internally
-GPS (not necessary)
-WiFi (_not necesary_ or _with really good antenna and hirose connector_)
-BT 2.0 with good antenna
-if one of above, then maybe (even third party) Walkie-talkie software
-with larger screen it could be possible to use 2 standard Treo batts simultaneously instead of one bigger. Then could be possible to hotswap batteries.
-Palm OS with true multi-tasking
-Mini USB 2.0 for charging/drive mode
-3.5 mm jack in antenna like some guy done it (2.5mm 4pin jack should be left)
-some more HW buttons
-mandatory QWERTY keybord. No some crappy slide but the good,old keyboard of good palmphones (like in treos)
-the same olg, simple GUI. Not the IPHONE/VISTA low-contrast GUI with animations that suck battery. 680 went this way a little bit and it's disgusting for me.
And still some (physical) place to add my own things. I can't tell that I wil never add some HW. There is always place for ideas in my phones/laptops etc.
-firefox/opera native (yes, I know, dream)